I Love #1's - 1986

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Last week this very community declared that Steve Harley & his Cockerny Rebellion and those Swedish songsters ABBA were on equal footing as the best number one of 1975 (see below for the tie-breaker)! Your main poll action however today features the Golden Pop Year of 1986:

[Poll #777608]

Comments

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Chain Reaction gets remarkably high airplay on Hits!TV for a twenty year old song.

BLOODY KIDS

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

how can ppl not be voting for edge of heaven???? i didn't expect it to beat PDP, but why is it down on 35%???!!?!?!?!

Re: BLOODY KIDS

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

I remember nearly all of these songs from The First Time Round (not least thanks to Grace's constant rotation of True Blue) but that one I can't bring to mind.

Re: BLOODY KIDS

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

take me to the edge of heaven
one last time might be forever
don't you tell me lies
it just a matter of something
that my heart is looking for a home

YEAH YEAH YEAH, NANA NANANA

it is the song that provided me with a POP EPIPHANY, which i may detail one day...

Re: BLOODY KIDS

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Not Diana Woss then?

Re: BLOODY KIDS

[lockedintheatti.livejournal.com]

It's one of Wham's best moments. Madness.

But I'm more concerned that people have voted for the Housemartins, Chris De Burgh & Boris Gardener. Awful the lot of them. HAVE YOU NO EARS, PEOPLE?

Re: BLOODY KIDS

[nicolars.livejournal.com]

I even thought when I was filling out the list "Surely no one will vote for Chris De Burgh" but then two people have! My faith in humanity is fading fast.

Re: BLOODY KIDS

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

i think this is one of the weaker singles if not weakest!

Re: BLOODY KIDS

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

it is infinitely better than both young guns and whan rap before we go ANY further.

there are also very very few examples of a bad motown pastiche in pop

Re: BLOODY KIDS

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

Young Guns and Wham Rap have more IMPACT (on me)

The Edge Of Heaven just sounds 'this'll do' to me - what might I be missing? this is only based on my memory of it - not heard it for quite a while - can only remember the chorus.

BLOODY OLD CODGER more like

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

I hate all of those. The only Wham! records that are any good at all are "Wake Me Up etcet" and "Everything She Wants".

Re: BLOODY OLD CODGER more like

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

This explains a lot actually.

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

I'm here to help.

Re: BLOODY KIDS

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

You see I was with you until this nonsense about Wham Rap!

Wham The Final is one of the greatest greatest hits records EVER. Not a bad moment (apart from Battlestations).

Re: BLOODY KIDS

[nicolars.livejournal.com]

U MAD

Re: BLOODY KIDS

[miss-newham.livejournal.com]

I know! It's the song that 'Wake me up before you go-go' should have been! (That made more sense in my head, but oh, you know...)

Re: BLOODY KIDS

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Further George injustice: "A Different Corner" is so lovely! (And so indie!)

Re: BLOODY KIDS

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

Can't remember this one. Is it a ballad?

Re: BLOODY KIDS

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Yes, it was the follow-up to "Careless Whisper", it's a post break-up number, a bit meandering but there's a real delicacy to it which Yog doesn't often hit.

Re: BLOODY KIDS

[nicolars.livejournal.com]

Yes, wth?!?! It is one of Wham's best singles! Surely no one is holding GM's park activities against him?

[awesomewells.livejournal.com]

Corblimey did The Final Countdown REALLY topple Take My Breath Away?!

WHAT A GLORIOUS YEAR THAT MUST HAVE BEEN.

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

It looks smashing on paper, doesn't it?

[awesomewells.livejournal.com]

This is the most Boshable poll ever, by the way. Every single track on this works/would work.

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Oh man I had an ACE idea for a mashup whilst walking to work today: Don't Cha by the Pussycat Dolls over T99 Anasthasia!

[braisedbywolves.livejournal.com]

I have been harbouring a plan for a happy hardcore version of Caravan of Love for a while now. Well, when I say plan, I mean "that sentence you've just read".

QUESTION

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Did you have to be under 10 at the time to enjoy The Chicken Song?

I loved it.

Re: QUESTION

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

It was fine as a sketch on the programme. Didn't really work in The Pop Marketplace so to speak.

Does anyone have an mp3 of "I've Never Met A Nice South African"? I'm intrigued to know how that stands up today. (Not at all, probably. But I'm curious)

Re: QUESTION

[lockedintheatti.livejournal.com]

I can still remember every single word of that song. I loved it too at the time.

Re: QUESTION

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

moi aussi. it was only when it was on the documentary the other week that i realised i still knew every word, it was marginally scary...

Re: QUESTION

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

I was 12 and I thought it was funny.

Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now

[jel-bugle.livejournal.com]

Which year did Starship get to number one in? I coulda sworn it was 1986...

Re: Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Nah, April '87 according to everyhit.

[the-roofdog.livejournal.com]

Haha, I am the only thing standing between Halle Straw Nick Berry and 0 vote humiliation!

Every Loser Loses

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

How apt.

[the-roofdog.livejournal.com]

My defence : that awful awful Paul Heaton song has 10 votes!!!!

C'mon ppl!

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

It's not a Paul Heaton song!!!!

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

He's coming on the caravan, you know.

[the-roofdog.livejournal.com]

Ewww.

[the-roofdog.livejournal.com]

It's a version of a song on which he performed. That's reason enough for me.

[the-roofdog.livejournal.com]

I would like to put him in a caravan and shoot him out into the depths of space to test his theory.

[the-roofdog.livejournal.com]

WHAT THE HELL AM I ON ABOUT ?!? I was thinking of 'Planet Caravan', which is a Black Sabbath song... and is great!

I would still like to launch Paul Heaton out into deep space.

[mippy.livejournal.com]

Slap my thigh and call me General Levy, but i still think Paul Heaton has an amazing white soul voice. I spent my formative years listenign to the Housemartins when I should have been listening to The That, but even so...check out Build, or the gospel covers on tape 1 side 1 of Now That's What I Call Quite Good, which I'd check for the actual track names if builders weren't knocking chunks out of my flat right now...

[mippy.livejournal.com]

I thought my friend had made up The Chicken Song and it was NOT A REAL SONG.

First song I heard on the radio this morning: Home Thoughts From Abroad by Clifford T Ward. Man, that's a stinker.

Spirit Level

[jel-bugle.livejournal.com]

Spirit in the Sky should be doing better!

Housemartins should be doing even worse.

Re: Spirit Level

[lockedintheatti.livejournal.com]

Perhaps people's memories have been sullied by Gareth Gates.

It deserves ticks for the outfits and the backing singers' dance alone.